Friday Links: More Evidence We Live in a Dystopian Hellscape

Brandi Twilley, “Gold and Blonde,” 2011, Oil on canvas. Twilley is born in Oklahoma City, OK, lives and works in NYC. From the Nasty Women show.

Singer and artist David Byrne and technology investor Mala Gaonkar have launched Neurosociety at Pace Art + Technology gallery in Silicon Valley’s Menlo Park. The show is described as an 60-minute immersive theater performance where visitors will be guided through a series of experiences created in collaboration with working neuroscience labs. Viewers are supposed to experience a “surprising aspect of yourself and how you relate to the world and to other people.” Two things: 1. Investors are now artists? 2. This whole description sounds like a recipe for cheeseball art, but I guess we’ll find out. [Eventbrite]

Roberta Smith must really love painter Elizabeth Murray—she describes a vitrine of 14 sketches at CANADA “exciting”, a word I’d never think to apply to a vitrine. But you know what? I’ve never liked Murray’s paintings, and the drawings, as Smith rightly points out, are a significant part of her practice. Smith calls for a museum to put on a show of these works. [The New York Times]

Roxanne Jackson’s facebook call to female artists and curators to organize a NASTY WOMEN show in response to the November 9th election went viral and now she has approximately 1000 pieces. She and a team comprised of Jessamyn Fiore, Angel Bellaran, Barbara Smith, Haley Shaw, Young Sun Han, Clive Murphy, Carolina Wheat, Liz Nielsen, Stephanie Stockbridge, and Aimee Odum will launch the show Nasty Women Art Show at the Knockdown Center on January 12. The organizers are names we feature frequently here on the blog, so we expect the show will be expertly organized and hung. That being said, it’s an open submission show, so don’t expect to see the Chelsea standards here. There’ll be a lot more paintings like the one you see above. [The Huffington Post]

Mayor Bill de Blasio is proposing a new 100 percent affordable housing building and library in Inwood that would have the city partner with the New York Public Library. An ill-conceived rezoning proposal that would allow developers to build a 17 story building that would include affordable housing units in another wise low-rise neighborhood was rejected by the city council last fall. [Curbed]

A futuristic looking BMW self-driving car is said to be able to receive deliveries from drones. This car looks like something from a sci-fi movie set. I don’t trust that it can do anything. [Dezeen]